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History[edit]

Why has the summary of the military's history been removed from the lead? This is standard for major militaries. Stara Marusya (talk) 22:51, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you check the history, you'd see the article has been going under a major revamp/update by Garuda28 over the past couple weeks, who's added about 100MB of content. I'd wait a bit to see how everything shakes out when he's done, but if you can't wait, then just ask him... - wolf 05:00, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I believe it is inappropriate that wars that the US armed forces have been involved in are listed in the Quick Facts, I think it is both opposed to the concise nature of the infobox and it is nonstandard for pages regarding other nations' armed forces. I believe the Quick Facts: History section should direct to other pages that cover U.S. military history as is standard with other militaries. Isz Chepewéssin (talk) 01:48, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Formal name of armed forces of the United States[edit]

At Template talk:United States Armed Forces informal discussions are taking place about whether the main article title, United States Armed Forces, is the best place to have the article. I initially raised these concerns when I noticed that the style "United States Armed Forces" is not referred to in United States Code, Annotated. The nearest thing in U.S. Code is "the armed forces."

All are encouraged and welcome to put their views at the bottom of that talkpage, see Template talk:United States Armed Forces#In Code / Article Rename?; these discussions may be formalized into a WP:RfC at some point. Kind regards to all, Happy New Year. Buckshot06 (talk) 21:47, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Industry section of infobox[edit]

I am questioning the need for a section in the article infobox that is titled "Industry". With all the flags and the length of the list wouldn't be better presented in the body of the article under the title of perhaps "International suppliers". Just asking for a friend...Cuprum17 (talk) 20:24, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]